The Week That Was – Say What?

The week that was. Was interesting  last week.  No huge scandals breaking this week in sports.  We did how ever have the start of the NHL season and the NBA preseason.  I guess the golf season came to an end.  Not really sure on that one though.  They do have the FedEx cup.  Wonder how much it is costing FedEx to sponsor that one.  MLB finally hit its playoffs.  For me it always seems to take forever for the playoffs to get here.

MLB Playoffs

The MLB playoffs started this week.  Happy that they are finally here.  The Baseball season is so long.  Other than the hard core fans, most people lose interest at some point during the season.  The one thing that baseball does do right is the one game wild card.  A winner take all to get into the actual post season.  I hear complaints about it saying baseball is a bunch of series.  One game is not fair.

Well if you don’t want to be in the one game playoff.  Win more games so that you win your division.  It is pretty simple.  Oh wait you were not good enough?  Yup so play the one super exciting game.  The change up in baseball for that one game is very exciting.  I think that is the one thing that baseball has done right in the last few years.  On the whole the season is pretty boring.  The only season that takes longer and gets less interesting as it goes toward the end is NASCAR.   Not a good spot to be in.  Changes do need to be made.  But we know that they will not.

So far the baseball playoffs have been pretty exciting.  The one thing about them that seems a bit strange is the television coverage.  In the games on Sunday one of them was on FS1.  I know I get that channel but could not tell you what the number of the channel is.   Another problem that Baseball has is that it was up against NFL football.  Probably why it was on FS1  LOL.   I have not seen the ratings but I am sure they were not that great.  Even will all the anger over the anthem protests I am sure the NFL numbers blew the baseball numbers away.

PGA and NASCAR

As far as I know both seasons are still on going.  Both should be done by now.

College Football – Another wild weekend

Nor sure if what happened to Oklahoma this weekend is a good thing or a bad thing for Ohio State.  I do know that it is a bad thing for Oklahoma.  They could still recover but they would have to win out.  They are also lucky that the Big 12 decided to have a championship game this year.   For Ohio State it looks bad since they lost to Oklahoma in Columbus.  Then Oklahoma lost to an average at best Iowa State team in Norman.  Which team if either can recover from this?  Another team(s) that showed who they are Michigan and Michigan State.  5 games into the season and Michigan state has won more games than they did all last year.  They got destroyed by Notre Dame but have played well in all their other games.  While I don’t think that MSU will be able to make the playoff I do think that they will have the opportunity to change some other teams seasons.

It does look like there will be a strong possibility of a re re match of Clemson and Alabama.  If that does happen then I will not watch because, well I just won’t care who wins it.  I know the other teams need to get better and take them out.   For me this is a case of success is destroying the sport.  So please someone Beat Clemson and someone beat Alabama.  It will be for the good of the game.

Once again Nick Saban is pissed at the press.  This time for praising his team too much.  So my recommendation to every writer out there.  You are not praising Alabama enough.  Please praise them more.  If that is all that it takes to get them to lose then with a group effort we can do it.  Alabama is the best team I have ever seen.  EVER.  They could beat the Browns heck forget that.  They are so good the could win the Super Bowl.

NHL – Ready Set GO

I love the NHL and I love hockey.  However even with the love of hockey I have it is another season that is just a touch to long for me.   It is October and we will not know a champion till June 2018.  Eight months away.  Holy macaroni that is a long season.  At least most of the games are interesting and at any point any team can break out and have a great season.    A lot of the experts have picked my team.  The Detroit Red Wings to have a dead last season.  It still could come to be but they started out the season 2 – 0 which is a longer winning streak that most people expected them to have.

It will be interesting this season to see if the Columbus Blue Jackets can have similar success to last year.  No one really thinks that they will have another record setting winning streak.  The Jackets have never put together two successful seasons in a row.  They have to team and the coach to do that this year.   If they do not win a playoff series this year then no matter how well they do in the regular season the season will be considered a failure.

NBA PreSeason

Like any preseason.  The NBA preseason has not bearing on what he regular season is going to look like.  We are 99.9% sure that Cleveland and Golden State are going to be in the finals again.  Of course this is baring any injury.  Even then both of these teams are set up pretty well even if one of their stars gets hurt.  If you listen to Mike and Mike in the morning.  Then you know the NBA regular season is a waste of time.  What we should really do is just seed the teams and move on to the playoffs.

Cleveland Browns – Say What

No one will mistake the Cleveland Browns for an NFL team this year.  What was confirmed this weekend was that they also do not have an NFL coach.  When Hue Jackson was hired.  I really thought that the Browns made the right move.  He had some head coaching experience.  Yes one 8 – 8 year with the Oakland Raiders.  While not good.  Not bad either.  He has been an amazing offensive coordinator.  He took Andy Dalton places that you did not think he would be able to go.  With the success in Cincinnati.  Yes Cincinnati.  He was hire by the Browns to be their head coach.  While little was expected of the Browns last year.  You still have to say they under achieved.

There was a little hope this year.  In most of the preseason picks.  People had the Browns winning 4 games.  While not good by any sense.  It would have been a massive improvement over last year.  So they are 0 – 5.  Great start if you are trying to tie the Lions when in 2007 they managed a goose egg in the win column.  While I don’t think that the Browns will go 0 – 16.  I do not think that they will win 4 games either.    The Browns started  Deshone Kizer their second round pick.  I am fine with starting a rookie.  In most cases that is the best way to get them some game experience and learn.  Will it be difficult.  Of course it will.  But then Hue Jackson did something that makes you wonder if he knows what a head coach is supposed to do.  He benched Kizer at half time.  At best a strange choice.  At worst it destroys his confidence.  Almost assuredly it shows that Jackson does not have what it takes to be an NFL head coach.  Some people are just meant to be coordinators.  Nothing wrong with that.

2049

Blade Runner 2049 came out this past weekend.  While it did not set the world on fire with its take.  It did lead the weekend with just over $32 million.  I have not had a chance to see it yet.  It has an 8.6 rating on IMDB which makes me think that it is going to pretty good.  I am really looking forward to seeing it.

The rest of this weeks news was the same as last week.  Mad man in Asia threatening to blow stuff up.  Lots of tweets and an exit stage left for dramatic affect.

Have a great week.

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